Doug Paletta

I am proud to have joined Penn's Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program as the associate director during the summer of 2015. My research focuses on questions central to social contract theory, particularly on defending the approach against structural challenges and investigating accounts of moral motivation. This dovetails with my role as associate director of the Penn Social Norms Group, Penn SoNG, with its mission of bringing a researched, practical theory of social norms to those working to improve people's lives by improving the social context of their world.